The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 52
That he may not make known in the midst of this company the service he has rendered me, I’ll straightway have his head cut off!”
Who acts: That, Buddha, I, head · What happens: not make, not know, render, 'll, have, cut off · To what, where: midst, me, straightway
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, Buddha, I, head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 make | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 make | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 midst | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 midst | det |
| 9 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 known | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 company | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 company | det |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 midst | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 service | det |
| 14 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 company | appos |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rendered | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rendered | aux |
| 17 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 service | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 rendered | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ’ll | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 ’ll | nsubj |
| 21 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | advcl |
| 22 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ’ll | obj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cut | nsubj |
| 26 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | ccomp |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 cut | compound:prt |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | may | That | Buddha nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | participle | That not said here | the midst of this company | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | render | present · perfect | Buddha | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | 'll | present | I | straightway | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | That not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cut off | past | Buddha's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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